Move to using GRPC to fetch cache entries from GCP #71
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Local testing shows that it drops sequential download time by ~40% Compare: Before patch: https://ge.androidx.dev/scans/performance?performance.metric=buildCacheOverhead%2CbuildCacheOverheadDownload&search.startTimeMax=1758610799999&search.startTimeMin=1758317400000&search.tags=nonGrpc&search.tasks=assemble&search.timeZoneId=America%2FLos_Angeles&search.usernames=aurimas After patch: https://ge.androidx.dev/scans/performance?performance.metric=buildCacheOverhead,buildCacheOverheadDownload&search.startTimeMax=1758610799999&search.startTimeMin=1758316800000&search.tags=not:nonGrpc&search.tasks=assemble&search.timeZoneId=America%2FLos_Angeles&search.usernames=aurimas Going from 13m 1s to 7m 54s in sequential download time. Test was running the following in androidx checkout: rm -fr ../../out/.gradle/caches/build-cache-1/ && rm -fr ../../out/androidx && ALLOW_PUBLIC_REPOS=true ./gradlew -p compose assemble --dependency-verification=off
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Local testing shows that it drops sequential download time by ~40% Compare:
Before patch: https://ge.androidx.dev/scans/performance?performance.metric=buildCacheOverhead%2CbuildCacheOverheadDownload&search.startTimeMax=1758610799999&search.startTimeMin=1758317400000&search.tags=nonGrpc&search.tasks=assemble&search.timeZoneId=America%2FLos_Angeles&search.usernames=aurimas
After patch: https://ge.androidx.dev/scans/performance?performance.metric=buildCacheOverhead,buildCacheOverheadDownload&search.startTimeMax=1758610799999&search.startTimeMin=1758316800000&search.tags=not:nonGrpc&search.tasks=assemble&search.timeZoneId=America%2FLos_Angeles&search.usernames=aurimas
Going from 13m 1s to 7m 54s in sequential download time.
Test was running the following in androidx checkout: rm -fr ../../out/.gradle/caches/build-cache-1/ && rm -fr ../../out/androidx && ALLOW_PUBLIC_REPOS=true ./gradlew -p compose assemble --dependency-verification=off